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Rahul Pandey

Rahul Pandey

I'm the cofounder of Taro! I spend my days thinking about how to provide software engineers with quality feedback and mentorship for their career growth. YouTube: https://youtube.com/rpandey1234

Welcoming Kenzie Alumni To Taro

Welcoming Kenzie Alumni To Taro

Today, we're announcing a partnership with Kenzie Academy from Southern New Hampshire University to empower alumni from the coding program to dramatically accelerate their career growth with Taro. Kenzie is a leading bootcamp with tech certificate programs in software engineering, web development, and other areas. Kenzie is very

I Just Received a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) -- What Should I Do?

I Just Received a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) -- What Should I Do?

A PIP is a formal document to let an employee know about recurring performance issues. The performance improvement plan (PIP) indicates that the employee is not meeting expectations for their job, and without an improvement, they'll be let go. There's no denying that receiving a PIP

The AI Battle Between Microsoft and Google - How ChatGPT and Bard AI Will Shape Society

The AI Battle Between Microsoft and Google - How ChatGPT and Bard AI Will Shape Society

The rate of innovation in AI has never been faster. In the past week: * Google released their highly anticipated chatbot, Bard AI * Microsoft and OpenAI held a joint live event announcing the integration of their chatbot, ChatGPT, into Bing and the Edge browser The increasing power of Artificial Intelligence has

Introducing Taro Referrals

Introducing Taro Referrals

Starting today, when a user joins Taro Premium through a referral, both the new member and referring member can receive hundreds of dollars in rewards. Find your unique link here: https://www.jointaro.com/rewards/ Taro is our corner of the internet where software engineers get credible advice to advance

I Made $9K from my YouTube Channel in 2022 and it's Powering my Company

I Made $9K from my YouTube Channel in 2022 and it's Powering my Company

In the spirit of transparency, I'm sharing some stats around my medium sized YouTube channel and how it helped me start a semi-successful business. In my opinion, this pattern of YouTubers using their distribution to build companies will become increasingly common, so I hope this is a helpful

Inside The Layoff Era of Big Tech (Meta, Google, Amazon Layoffs)

Inside The Layoff Era of Big Tech (Meta, Google, Amazon Layoffs)

In the past 5 days: * Google laid off 12,000 * Microsoft laid off 10,000 * Amazon laid off 18,000 When I joined Meta back in 2017, I never expected to see large-scale layoffs at the biggest, most profitable tech companies in the world (Meta laid off 11,000 employees

The Patterns of the Most Efficient Software Engineers

The Patterns of the Most Efficient Software Engineers

In a competitive job market, efficiency is more important now than ever. This is especially true in the field of software engineering. With new technologies and approaches emerging every day, it can be difficult to keep up. That's why it's so important to learn from the